XPost: misc.legal, alt.english.usage   
   From: wugi@brol.invalid   
      
   Op 1/03/2026 om 23:51 schreef guido wugi:   
   > Op 26/02/2026 om 5:27 schreef Mr. Man-wai Chang:   
   >>   
   >> Shouldn't "Pedo" by itself just mean "kids"? The problem is the   
   >> "phile" part. "pedo-lover" is a totally wrong combination of words to   
   >> mean "pedo-phile" in my opinion!   
   >>   
   >> "pedo-lover" should just people who cares about kids, unless the word   
   >> "lover" also hints about "phile".   
   >>   
   >> Who're playing with common English words with evil intent? :)   
   >   
   > In Spanish it's even more tricky, as pedo means fart. Pedophilia and   
   > your pedo-lover will, I suppose, induce connotations of F. pétomanie,   
   > even if Sp. like E. has flatulista here, wonder why.   
   > Sp. allows also spelling paidofilia, and has, changing topics, the   
   > hybrid podómetro (Gr. pous instead of L. pes) for Latin-English   
   > pedometer.   
   >   
      
   BTW more changing topics:   
   "ChatGPT" and (g,p,T) variables in our physical chemistry course at some   
   time have/had also flatulist connotation (j'ai pété).   
      
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